Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

"Bread it shall be-" and been almost i'm
patient at the time taken for mastication !;
but Christ with one hand beat back the
hunger, and with the other hand beat
back the monarch of darkness. o, We
tempted ones! Christ was tempted. We
are told that Napoleon ordered g coat Of
mail made; but he was not quite certain
that 1t was impenetIable, so he said to
the manufacturer of that coat of
mail: "Put it on now yourself
and let US try it," and with shot
after shot from his own pistol the En-
peror found out that it was just what it
pretended to be-a good coat of mail.
Then the man received large reward.
bless Gcd that the same coat of mail that
struck back the weapons of temptation
from the heart of Christ We may all now
wear: for Jesus comes and says: az
have been tempted, and l know what it
is to be tempted. Take this robe that
defended Me and wear it for yourselves.
l will see you through aI trials, aud
VIII see you through all temptation"
But" says Satan still further to
| Jesus, "come and l Will show you SOME
thing worth looking at" and sitter half
DAY S Journey they came TO Jerusalem
and to the top OF the temple. Just as one
might go up IN the tower of Antwerp and
| look off upon Belgium, SO Satan brought
Christ to the top of the temple. Some peo-
| pie at great height feel dizzy, aud have
strange disposition to jump; So Satan
| CONES 10 Christ with powerful tempta
/ ton in that very crisis. Standing there
at the top of the temple they look off. \
magnificent reach OF country. Grain
fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests
| and streams, cattle in the valley, fOcks
on the hills, and villages and cities and
realms. "NOw," says Satan, "I'Il make
| bargain. Just jump off. | know it is
q great way from the top OF the temple to
the valley, but if you are divine you can
fly. Jump off. 1t won't hurt you. An
gels will eaten you. Your Father will
hold you. Besides, I'll make you large
present if you will. III give you Asia
China, I'll give you Ethiopis, I'll give
you Italy, I'n give you Spain, I'll give
you Germany,I'l give you Britain. I'll give
you all the world" What humiliation
it must have been.
Go tomorrow morning and get into an
alteration with some wretch crawling
up from a gin-cellar in the Fourth ward,
New York. "No." you say, az would not
bemean myself by getting in such con-
test" Then think of what the King of
heaven and earth endured when He came
down and fought that great wretch of
hell, and fought him in the wilderness
and on the top of the temple. But !
bless God that in that triumph over temp
tation Christ gives US the assurance that
we shall also triumph. Having Himself
been tempted, lie is able to succor all /.
those who are tempted.
In violent storm at sea the mate told |
& boy-tor the rigging had become entan-
gled in the mast-to go up and right IT, /
A gentleman standing on the deck said:
"DOn't send that boy up; he will be |
dashed to death" The mate said: 81 .
know what am about The boy raised /
his hat in recognition of the order, and .
then rose, hand over hand, and went 70
work: and as he Swung in the storm the
passengers Wrung their hands and eX-
pected to see him fall. The work done,
he came down in safety, and a Christian
man said to him: "Why did you go down
in the foreCastle before you went up:"
"Ah," said the boy, 81 went down to
pray. My mother always taught me be-
fore undertook anything great to pray"
''What is that you have in your vest?"
said the man. go, that is the New Tes-
lament" he said, az thought | would
carry it with me if l really did 90 over
board" How well that boy was protect
ed care not how great the height or how
vast the depth, with Christ within US, and
Christ beneath US, ana Christ above US,
and Christ all around US, nothing shall
befall US in the way of harm. Christ
himself, having been in the tempest, will
deliver all those who put their trust in
him. Blessed be his glorious name for
ever.
The third installment paid for our re-
demption was the SaviOur's sham trial
| Call 1t sham trial-there has never
been anything so indecent or unfair in
the Tombs court OF New York as wss
at the trial of Christ. Whv.
they hustled Him into the courtroom at ,
o'clock in the morning. They gave Him
no time for counsel. They gave Him no
opportunity for supHnaing witnesses
The ruflians who were wandering around
through the midnight, of course they sew
the arrest and went into the courtroom.
But Jesus friends were sober men, were .
respectable men, and at that hour, . ,
o'clock in the morning, of course they ,
were at home asleep. Consequently
Christ entered the courtroom with the :
'utlianS.
Oh, LOOK at Him! No one to speak {
word for Him. l lift the lantern until |
IAN look into His face, and as my heart
beats in sympathy for this, the best friend S
he world ever had, Himself now utterly i
an officer of the courtroom /
zones up and smites Him in the mouth, i
md see the blood stealing from gum S
nd lip. Oh, it was & farce of trial, 8
aSting only perhaps an hour, and then !
he Judge rises for the sentence! II is u
gainst the law to give sentence unless '
here has been an adjournment of the b
curt between condemnation and sen t
ence; but what cares this Judge for the t
aw? "The man has no friends-let Him
lie" says the Judge, and the ruflians s
outside the rail cry: cana! aha. that's C
What we want-His blood Hand Him d
nut here to Us. Away with Him, away 8
With HIM" Oh, bless God that amid II
II the injustice that may be inflicted upon il
S in this world we have q divine sympa- Is
hizer. The world cannot lie about YOU D
or abuse you as much as they did Christ Y
nd Jesus stands to-day in every court W
Dom, in every home, in every store, and G.
avs: "Courage! By all my hours of d
and abuse, will protect "
hose who are trampled on" And when T
'hrist forgets that O'Clock morning fe
Gene, and The stroke of the rufiian on the ri
louth, and the bowling of the unwashed a.
rowd, then He will forget you and me b.
4 the injustices of life that may be in tt
lcted upon US.
Some of you want deliverance from d
our troubles. God knows you have b.
nough of them. Physical troubles, do CT
lestic troubles, spiritual troubles, finan- Of